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Topic Lesson 24: **//Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer//**

Common Core Standards RL5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. RL5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. W5.2a-e Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify, analyze and evaluate cause and effect relationships in a story. 2. Students will write a research report.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __Westward Expansion: An Interactive History Adventure__, by Allison Lassieur
 * __Westward Expansion,__ by Teresa Domnauer
 * __Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation,__ by John Ehle

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Activities


 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 621. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "A Look at the Past" or "In on the Action."
 * See Student Book, page 625. Complete //**Text to World.**//

Assessments 1. Practice Workbook, pages 277-278 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T273 and R18 3. Weekly Test, 24.4-24.5

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